diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index 1a8a822fd5170bb793f87feee310b942124ee4e8..077e48386c0b35296c82b785d62b8b2f0a42fee2 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2013-02-04  Manuel López-Ibáñez  <manu@gcc.gnu.org>
+	    Paolo Carlini  <paolo.carlini@oracle.com>
+
+	PR libstdc++/56202
+	* include/bits/random.tcc (binomial_distribution<>::
+	_M_waiting(_UniformRandomNumberGenerator&, _IntType)): Avoid
+	division by zero.
+
 2013-02-03  Richard Sandiford  <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
 
 	Update copyright years.
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/random.tcc b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/random.tcc
index ffa3967492b2ebf7014dc829797491530163827b..6220a5d61d4dea8023150f69db8a2c7e51561007 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/random.tcc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/random.tcc
@@ -1658,6 +1658,12 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
 	do
 	  {
 	    const double __e = -std::log(1.0 - __aurng());
+	    if (__t == __x)
+	      {
+		if (__e)
+		  return __x;
+		continue;
+	      }
 	    __sum += __e / (__t - __x);
 	    __x += 1;
 	  }